* Kevin Kofler via devel:
Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kevin Kofler via devel:
>
>> (And for the record, I also think that Go and Rust should not work
>> that way either! It is possible to build shared libraries of Go code,
>> at least one Go toolchain supports it.)
>
> There is no stable Go ABI. Even minor updates change ABI because type
> sizes and struct offsets change and are inlined across shared object
> boundaries. You have to rebuild all reverse dependencies to avoid ABI
> mismatches. Go's compatibility guarantees only apply at the source
> level and do not preclude the addition of new struct fields, for
> example.
The same goes for OCaml and yet we still manage to ship almost everything in
OCaml dynamically linked.
Interesting. Could you provide an example of such a dynamically linked
binary?
Thanks,
Florian